Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

A team of Apple researchers set out to understand what real users expect from AI agents, and how they’d rather interact with them. Here’s what they found. In the study, titled Mapping the Design Space ...

Tinder is looking to AI to revitalize its dating app, which has now reported nine straight quarters of paying subscriber declines, as of the third quarter this year. The dating app maker, Match Group, ...

Amazon will issue $1.5 billion in refunds as the result of an FTC settlement. Will you be getting one? Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Amazon agreed to a whopping $2.5 ...

Linda Hezel gets up early to clip herbs, vegetables and produce from the plants on her farm north of Kansas City. “I'm trying peppers which you normally think would be only in full sun,” Hezel said.

They're not just early adopters—they're the ones who give you unfiltered feedback, talk about you online, find bugs, and help shape what you're building. They become your proof of concept. If you can ...

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

Apple will no longer be required to provide international law enforcement access to private data after the U.K. agreed to rescind an investigatory power mandate. Director of National Intelligence ...

Abstract: Modular Arrays (MAs) are a promising architecture to enable multi-user communications in next-generation multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on extra-large (XL) or gigantic ...